, 1887-09-08
JEDGE WAXEM ABROAD
HE AND MANDY LEAVE ITALY AND
GO TO SWITZERLAND.
"Reminiscences of the Tariff Charged In
Fair ItaIia-A Quiet Sunday in Switzer-
Land That Reminded Them Both of the
Quiet Sundays in wayback-The Alps.
Especial Correspondence.I

Quiet Sundays in Wayback-The Alps
Especial Correspondence
GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug ].
! think the last letter / wrote to yore val
liable journal was from Lake Como, Italy,
and here we air this week i'll Genevy. From
Italy to Switzerland, the land of St. Peter "a
the land OF John Calvin, and more scenery
betwixt them than would make q heaven feI
both of 'em and leave plenty of room fer tlIer
dlferents of relijus Opinions to moove
around without clashin up agin one anutii.r.
We tuck our own time in comm over here
from Como, fer good deal OF the way is up
hill, and though the rodes is good, Mandy
wouldent ride moren sixty-tive mile da,
nohow. She said she couldent do it and dc
justis to the scenery. That's what she said
but thar was stagfn in several places and ]
think 1t was ware and tare on the arnicky
bottle that she wanted to pervoni / have
discovered that long stage ride, to q Hnaa.
toor, has tendency to skin him alive.
The only travlin' ON passes I've done ssuee
the passidge OF that doggone intesssets eona-
merse bill has bin betwixt here ana Isks
Como. But it wasent railroad pssses-i. was
mounting passes and we had to do 10 by staSe
and pay fer 1t besides This is the fost time,
Mr. EddItor, have attempted to eit OF 4
JOKE on thaG interstate commerse bill, which
thought was goin to be n mighty good Joke
on the raIlrodeS, but which scanned TO bs
retroactive, as it wair, OH to the statesmen
that voted for its passidge You will excrse
my ievlty, 1 hope, and take it as a sign that
am recoVerin my usule sperrits after the
seVeer blow that was struck by the monopo-
lists at the intrusts of the national legisinteis,
VINO was so zealus in the cause of the people
that they neglected to look out fer therseIve.,
My views on the tariff question air under
goin change, at least OIL this side of tie
oshen. l have noticed all over Italy that
every hack driver, and boatman, and glide
and every other public servant, outside of
politics, when he comes to collect his fare,
always wants more than you had figgered ON
lettin him have, and when you Object, be
says Tariff" Tariff. the only English Le
knows, and pulls out a printed carl, shown
you the legal price Of the job, made that way
10 SKIN unsuspectin victim clean 20 the
bone. AT Vesuvius fer instants, when /. red
hot peace of lazy fell neer where we wus, ous
OF the gides grabbed it up and come to me
wantin penny to pnt in it, and let It stick
thar, when it got cold, fer mermentum Of
vulcano. ! put up the money, though I
didn't want to pertickerlerly, and before i.
wus cold started TO carry it along on the end
OF a stick; but the gide said had to pay a
franc for it, and pulled the tariff bill OH me.
1t wus my penny tool Well got SO mai /
throwed the whole thing into the crater and
come mighty nigh servin the blamed glide the
same way, although am usually law abiaiin
sitizen. Until return to the land of the free
am i'll favor OF tarif reform and ef my col.
leeg Mr.. Sam Randall, could come over here
Ter season, it would make q free trader out
OF him in no time.
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But / am wanderin from the suI,jss.k. W.
got out Of Italy and into SwirzTl,nd oil, !,
Saturday night, and the folleriu Sunday We
observed in the good old Wayback fa.hun Iy
restin quiet all day. We was at q III. ,
mounting town whar sinIli~ity and rooraiity
prevailed and whar everybody that met us
on the road passed the time of day and took
Of ther hat, and thar was q church bell
a-ringin and the smell Of the woods come
down from the hills and the fragrants OF the
flowers come up from the valleys and men and
wimmen in their Sunday go to nleetin close
was ssandin around in the shade Of the
houses on the street and gossipn and iau.hin
in quiet way fer all the world like SCmiuy
morIin in Wayback 1t made US mighty
nigh homesick, fer it was all in forrin Ian
gwidge except the sunshine and the woods
and the flowers, but it was so much better
than any Sunday we had experienced sence
leavin Wnyback that we sot down on little
shady hilltop overlookin the peeceful &C. ne
and didn't say word to each other for q full
hour, but put in the time n-tiii.kin and
a-thinkin and wonderin what they was nj
doin in that other peeceful rooral des-strick
30 fer away At last Mandy took ou her
handkerchief and wiped her eyes and kinder
laughed gentle laugh and said ef the dust
was that bad we'd better be goin, AMI we
strolled along down the road, not goin any
where in pertickler, and not keering much
whether we got thar or not.
The scenery in Switzerland beats the
world, and will beat it tell we can git the
Rocky mountings moved east and Civ art Q
chance to assist mater. Fer week or more
we was in sight Of snow and ice, and some
times we walked on snow drifts 800 foot deep
and a mile wide, and towcrin above us tell
ther tops seemed punchin hole into the eter-
nal blue of the heavens, stood the dessolet
peaks, so grand and gloomy that it made my
throat fill up and kinder choked me to look at
them. 1 am glad Switzerland is free coun-
try, fer these grand old mountings should
know no crown but thar own eternal SHOWS
.et Off by the gitterin stars that seems to shine
in that empty white settin.
Mandy wus disappointed because she couldent
take glasheer home with her to make
spring house out Of TO keep milk and butter
in, but consoled her by buyin her n pair OF
nittin needle holders made out of shanioise
horns.
AS we expect to be i'll this New Hamshire OF
Europ fer week er so, will close this letter
now and Civ your readers a few moro pints
i'm another one. Give my love to all inQuirin
friends Yours truely, w. Q. WAxEM